A HISTORICAL GUIDE TO
HERMAN MELVILLE

Giles Gunn's Historical Guide to Herman Melville has just been published by Oxford University Press, which includes five original essays and a short biography of Melville by other scholars, along with an introduction, historical chronology, and bibliography produced by professor Gunn.

The Historical Guides to American Authors is an interdisciplinary, historically sensitive series that combines close attention to the United States' most widely read and studied authors with a strong sense of time, place, and history. Placing each writer in the context of the vibrant relationship between literature and society, volumes in this series contain historical essays written on subjects of contemporary social, political, and cultural relevance.